Rest Day, Beers and Braai

This morning I was up first at 6am and Petes bedroom door was closed so I quietly made a coffee and then went back to our little room and sat on the chair outside to drink it.
At 6:45 I went back to the house and there was still no sign of Pete so I made another coffee and a tea for Ellie and delivered that before returning to the house to cuddle the cat.
Pete didn’t emerge until 7:30am closely followed by Ron and I made more coffees and then the chess game started.
At 9:30 Ellie and I gave up waiting for what the day might bring and decided to go and get dressed and when we returned to the house the chess game was still going on.
At 10:30 the game finally finished but obviously by that time both Ron and Pete had no brain power left for the day and then went upto the roof terrace so Pete could roll a joint and chill out.
At 11am Pete was talking about getting beers so I went to do a 30 minute workout and then showered but when I went back to the roof terrace at midday nobody had moved and Pete was now desperate for someone to go and get beer.
The only place to get beer now would be the bottle store which only takes cash of which Ellie and I have none and because of the queues in town at the atm machines we wouldn’t be getting any out. Also we have paid for dinner which is hopefully ostrich steaks and the braai rolls.
Eventually Pete managed to twist Ron’s arm into going to the bottle store and off they went in Karin the car and returned 30 minutes later with 6 bottles of beer and then they started flowing.
At 2pm Pete asked me to put some music on and then our little party on the roof terrace really started and of course the chess board came back out and Ron and Pete started battling again.
We stayed on the roof until 5:30pm and then we drunk the last bottle of beer so Ron and I went back to the local tavern and brought 4 more bottles to get us through the night and when we returned Pete had lit a huge fire and we all sat around that while Pete cooked our ostrich steaks, Wors Sausage and the Braai rolls while listening to some chill out music and talking.
At 7pm dinner was served with some mashed vegetables and we all agreed that it was probably the best meal of the trip as the ostrich steaks were superb.
Then it was coffee time before finally heading to bed at 8pm. It had been a slow but lovely day sharing stories and having a laugh and we’ve friended Ron on Facebook to stay in touch.En savoir plus